Burly Comfort II Smokeless Fire Pit Insert Set

Measure the inside of your fire pit opening at its widest point, then pick your size. Three of them cover almost everything people build.

Opening 27" to 35"	24" firebox, round	37" outer brim
Opening 27" to 35"	24" firebox, square	37" outer brim
Opening 36" to 44"	32" firebox, round	46" outer brim

If the pit is already built and you have spent too many nights moving your chair to get out of the smoke, this drops straight into the opening you have. Same story if the insert you already have has burned through. A backyard fire pit insert takes more heat than most steel is built for, and a replacement bowl costs a great deal less than rebuilding the stone around it.

This burns wood. There is no gas version and no conversion kit.

Shipping: built and shipped from Virginia, typically on its way within 5 to 10 business days. Freight delivery is included at no charge, and the carrier calls ahead to arrange a delivery window. Order by 28 November to have it before Christmas.

The Comfort II is a double wall insert. Air pulls in through the lower vents, heats as it rises between the two walls, and feeds back into the fire through the upper ring. That second burn takes most of the smoke out of it. No fan, no power, no assembly. Set it in and you are finished.

It is a complete bowl, not a bare ring. The floor is a raised vented log rest, so air gets under the fire and the ash has somewhere to fall instead of sitting on dirt or gravel.

One thing to be straight about: there is no removable ash pan or ash catcher in this one. Ash collects in the bottom of the bowl and you shovel it out when it builds up. If a pull-out ash tray is the feature you are shopping for, this is not that insert.

The outer brim rests on top of your stone and overlaps the lip of the opening. That brim does more work than it looks like. It keeps flame and radiant heat off the block, and heat cycling against masonry is what opens up mortar joints and spalls the face off manufactured stone a few seasons in.

What arrives: the insert and a solid steel snuffer lid sized to it. Set the lid on when you are done for the night and it smothers the fire, then keeps rain and leaves out of the bowl until the next one.

Every insert comes with a pack of our Sure-Fire Starters. They ship separately from us, not in the crate with the insert. Hand made in Minnesota from all-natural materials, waterproof, and one of them gets the bowl going without kindling even if the wood is damp. It seemed wrong to send someone a fire pit insert and leave them hunting around for a way to light it.

Hand built in the U.S. from heavy gauge steel, finished in high temperature paint.

Do you need sand or gravel underneath? Not for the insert. It is self-contained and carries its weight on the brim rather than on the ground. A tamped gravel base is still worth putting down before you lay the block, but that is for the pit itself, to keep the stone from shifting or heaving over a winter.

Two things worth having on hand

The insert arrives ready to use and the starters come with it, so this is not a parts list. It is what people reach for after the first night.

• A Stoker Poker earns its place here more than on an open fire. The firebox is deep and the whole design runs on airflow, so moving a log and feeding air into the coals from a few feet back, standing up, is the difference between poking at a fire and running one.
• Fireside Chats cards are not equipment. They give everyone something to do besides look at a phone.

SPECIFICATIONS

	Round 27-35"	Square 27-35"	Round 36-44"
Firebox	24"	24"	32"
Outer brim	37"	37"	46"
Height	12"	11"	12"
Snuffer lid	26", 9 lbs	26", 11 lbs	34", 25 lbs
Shipping weight	75 lbs	95 lbs	110 lbs

Material: heavy gauge steel with a high temperature finish
Assembly: none
Fuel: wood only

A cooking grate is not included. The Comfort II is built as a fire feature rather than a grill.

Measuring a square pit: Burly lists the square unit by inside diameter the same way as the round. Measure the opening across the flats, not corner to corner.

More insert than you need? The Burly Mojo is a six piece stainless liner that covers 27 to 34 inch round pits for a good deal less. No lid and no floor, so the fire sits on whatever is in the bottom of the pit, but it burns the smoke the same way and ships in one small box.